Overview: Eli Review is a set of tools that help instructors run feedback-centric classrooms. Designed by writing teachers frustrated by a lack of technology to support their work, every feature in Eli is grounded in writing and learning theory.

With Eli Review, teachers can help students give and get better feedback and coach them in effective revising skills, the two skills that research has proven to be the most effective for learning. With Eli, teachers can help students be better writers.

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One of the challenges of using an app is getting students into the online assignment. A course management system like Blackboard or Infinite Campus puts all the tools in one place, which makes it convenient for students. It’s easy to add Eli Review tasks to your LMS, emails, or other online spaces with a link. […]

The revision plan report shows an instructor all the artifacts of a student’s write-review-revise cycle, making it easy to coach the thinking between drafts. The fastest way to access all of a writer’s artifacts is opening them in new tabs. Easily switch between artifacts by clicking on browser tabs. Every modern web browser allows you […]

Eli Review’s anonymity feature creates a double-blind peer review: writers do not know reviewers’ names, and reviewers do not know writers’ names. When anonymity is engaged, student names are replaced with Classmate # (see screenshot below). The number varies with the student’s group membership, so they are unlikely to be represented by the same number […]

Eli Review is a peer learning app, helping students learn to give better feedback and use it to revise. Instructors using Eli rely on peer learning too. We help each other teach—rather than merely assign—feedback and revision. Reflecting on her experiences using Eli this year, Libby Miles at the University of Vermont observed: There is […]

One of the feature requested most often from instructors most often is an option to arrange students into feedback groups and save those groups for later use so that the groups don’t need to be created over and over again. This is especially important for instructors who have regular groups or teams that carry over […]

Eli Review (also known simply as “Eli”) was invented to help instructors coordinate courses rich in feedback and revision. Invented in classrooms at Michigan State University, Eli Review is pedagogy, not just a technology. [learn more].